Fashion, Glamour, Lifestyle
Wenn sich ein Kunstmuseum in eine Fashion Show verwandelt, dann ist definitiv Sylvie Fleury zu Gast. Seit rund 25 Jahren spielt die Künstlerin ironisch mit Geschlechterklischees und Stereotypen der Konsumgesellschaft. Mit »Shoplifters from Venus« präsentiert das Kunst Museum Winterthur nach 15 Jahren erstmals in der Schweiz wieder eine umfassende Einzelausstellung der Genfer Künstlerin, in der sie den Dialog mit der Moderne sucht und deren männliche Prägung lustvoll offenlegt. Das kommende Begleitbuch ist dabei mehr als nur ein Ausstellungskatalog: Es folgt der Entwicklung des künstlerischen Werks anhand aller Einzelausstellungen der Künstlerin seit den 1990er Jahren. Essays von Simon Baier, Konrad Bitterli und Elisabeth Bronfen beleuchten ausgewählte Aspekte ihres Schaffens, das über die Jahre nichts an inhaltlicher Brisanz und emanzipatorischer Kraft verloren hat.
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Kunst Museum Winterthur, 3/6 - 20/8/2023
Simon Baier is Laurenz-Professor for Contemporary Art at the University of Basel. He studied Art History and Philosophy in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and New York and completed his PhD at the University of Zurich with a thesis on El Lissitzky's and Kazimir Malevich's work around 1928. Simon Baier also works as an art critic. His texts appeared in Artforum International and Texte zur Kunst. From 2005- 2006 he was a fellow for Critical Studies, Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Sylvie Fleury (*1961) is a contemporary Swiss artist whose installation, sculpture, and mixed media work deals with our sentimental and aesthetic attachments to consumerist culture. Emerging in the 1990s, Fleury's early ' shopping bag' installations laid the foundations for a body of work that became as provocative as it is playful. Fleury heralded a new artistic trend by subverting the codes of consumption, creating an interplay between fashion and art, while interrogating the relationship between desire and fetishism. 2018 she was awarded with the Prix Meret Oppenheim. Konrad Bitterli (b. 1960) former curator of Kunstmuseum St. Gallen is since 2017 the new director of the Kunst Museum Winterthur and follows Dieter Schwarz in this directorate. Schwarz was an expert of art of the 1960s with worldwide high renown. The main focus in his work sees Konrad Bitterli in an intensive communication of art to the general public and wants to continue comparitive works as did shown with the exhibitions ' Hodler- Giacometti, Daumier- Pettibon', or about the work of so different artists as alike Roman Signer, Steven Parino, Jonathan Lasker, Donald Judd, Mona Hartoum et al. Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. Her research focuses on the visual culture of the 19th and 20th century, on intermediality and Gender Studies. She did her PhD at the University of Munich, on literary space in the work of Dorothy M. Richardson's novel ' Pilgrimage', as well as her habilitation, five years later, on representations of femininity and death. She held numerous guest professorships in the US, Australia, Portugal, France, Italy, and Denkmark. David Schmidhauser is a curator at Kunst Museum Winterthur.
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